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Black Agenda Report for Friday, Nov 9, 2013: Detroit As Dred Scott, Saving the White Man, AFRICOM Riding High
8 November 2013 — Black Agenda Report Friday, Nov. 8: This week in Black Agenda Report Detroit as Dred Scott by BAR executive editor Glen Ford The bum-rush to bankrupt Detroit is the leading legal edge in Wall Street’s drive to declare Black urban dwellers “beings of an inferior order” with no rights that Capital Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 28 August, 2013: The "Dreamer" With a Kill List, the "Dreamer" as Zombie, Syria Enters American Hell
28 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Dr. King Was A Man, “The Dreamer” Is A Zombie by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Gary Younge points out that King’s “I Have A Dream” speech wasn’t offered as the penultimate moment of his career till after his death. Those Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for 14 August 2013: Holder & Obama Playing Us on Drug War, Massive Resistance to Stop & Frisk Ruling, Fukushima
14 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Holder & Obama Are Playing Us On Mandatory Minimums, the Drug War and Mass Incarceration by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Once or twice a year Eric Holder and/or the president discover police brutality, racial profiling, or the injustice of the Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for July 31, 2013: Obscene 14 Blacks in Congress, Obama & Holder Argue to Extend Mass Incarceration
1 August 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Obama Administration Seeks to Keep Tens of Thousands Imprisoned Under Unfair Crack VS Powder Cocaine Penalities by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Our black political class wants to feed us outrage over the case of Trayvon Martin. But for 3 years Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 5 June 2013: Andy Young Still a Shameless Son, Et Tu Bill Thompson, Ben Jealous's Indecent Proposal
5 June 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Shameless Son Andy Young’s “Foreign Aid” Scam Evaporates Amid Charges of Malfeasance, Insider Dealing by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Former civil rights figure and ex-Atlanta mayor Andrew Young took part in a perfectly legal “foreign aid” scheme that might have Continue reading
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BA Report 29 May 2013: Obama's Perpetual Con, Chickens Home To Roost
29 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Perpetual War – and Obama’s Perpetual Con Game by BAR executive editor Glen Ford President Obama’s perpetual scam machine is in high gear – which signals another expansion of war and war-powers accumulation. The president played the reluctant warrior who doesn’t really Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 22 May 2013: Can Black Politics Be Revived? The Obama "Dog Whistle" & More
22 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Can Black Politics Be Revived? by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Obama’s presidency has been disastrous for African Americans, who have been economically crushed and disconnected from their historical roots in social struggle.Political fantasists now urge us to put our faith in Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 15 May 2013: The More Effective Evil, When Prosecutors Are Crimimals
15 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The More Effective Evil by Your World News For some time now, Black Agenda Report has been calling the Obama administration not the lesser of two but the more effective evil, able to enact measures that white Democrats or Republicans could not Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for May 8, 2013: Obama Brands Assata Shakur "Most Wanted Terrorist": Support the Movement At Yr Own Risk
8 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Not Your Daddy’s COINTELPRO: Obama Brands Assata Shakur “Most Wanted Terrorist” by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Assata Shakur could not have been named “most wanted terrorist” without the explicit approval of the first black president and his attorney general. In Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report for May 1, 2013: NY Times Slanders Black Farmers, Crushed By Capitalism, Death in Somalia
1 May 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Breitbart Lives? New York Times & Slate.com Do Sloppy Racist Hatchet Job on Black Farmers Lawsuit By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon On Friday, April 26, the New York Times, with an assist from the Washington Post property Slate.com committed a journalistic atrocity Continue reading
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Black Agenda 27 March 2013: Is the Prison Industrial Complex Real? Throwing BRICS at US Empire, Obama Turns Right
27 March 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Black Mass Incarceration —- Is It New? Is It Jim Crow? Is the Prison-Industrial Complex Real? And What Difference Does It Make By BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Michelle Alexander’s 2010 book “New Jim Crow” provided a language to talk about the Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 13 March 2013: Iraq Scorched Earth 10 Years Later, Exposing Democrats, Against Privatization
13 March 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The U.S. Scorched Earth Policy, Ten Years After Iraq Invasion by BAR executive editor Glen Ford In desperation to halt the slide into “non-empire” status, the U.S. makes every government on Earth a potential target for “humanitarian” military intervention. The imposition of Continue reading
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Israeli State Terror Crowd Control Weapons by Stephen Lendman
State terror is official Israeli policy. Community incursions, assaults, and other violent incidents occur daily. Palestinian suffering follows. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 7 February 2013: Why Nobody's Listening to Black Folk, Sniper Gets Sniped, New Black Agenda TV Episode
7 February 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Why Nobody’s Paying Attention to Black Folks These Days by BAR executive editor Glen Ford Don’t expect President Obama to offer any measures targeted to the Black economic crisis in his State of the Union address. He’s under absolutely no pressure to Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 17 January 2013: Obama / MLK / Haiti / FCC / Africa / Django Unchained…
17 January 2013 — Black Agenda Report New this week at Black Agenda Report Don’t You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama by BAR executive editor Glen Ford If Dr. King were alive today, there might be a Black president, but he or she would certainly not get MLK’s support if he behaved like Barack Obama. Continue reading
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Obama Plans African Wars By Stephen Lendman
Obama’s war-making appetite exceeds all his predecessors and then some. He’s already waging multiple direct and proxy wars. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report October 31, 2012 – Most Important Election Ever, Really? Obama the Untouchable, Made in the USA
31 October, 2012 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report Is This Really The Most Important Election Ever? If So, Then Where Are Our Issues? by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon It’s hard to see how an election is so darn important for black America when the candidates aren’t talking about Continue reading
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Reflections As Nelson Mandela Turns 94 July 18th By Danny Schechter
Cape Town, South Africa: Nelson Mandela was released from prison 22 years ago. He has been “free” ever since. At the same time, I sometimes feel as if I became his prisoner—imprisoned by the work I have been doing enthusiastically in service to the struggle he led ever since the mid 1960’s. Continue reading
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